Shrine on the Mosswater

I’m hesitant to post this first version of today’s map – it is one of my first attempts to add watercolours to a map after drawing it (I started with another one, which I'll release next week). But I’m happy enough with it so here we go…

A recurring theme in games I play in and run are small odd locations along rivers. This turns up a lot in my Heart of Darkling series, but also in the many maps I’ve posted of riverside ruins, shrines, cities, and fortresses.

This is a large shrine along the shore of the Mosswater river where a small tributary feeds into the main river. The shrine is dedicated to twin gods of the moon – one of the full moon and one of the new moon. It isn’t a church as such, and most of the people here are either pilgrims who have sought it out, lost travellers & adventurers coming down the river, and the small number of clerics and monks who maintain the shrine itself.

For adventurers, the shrine offers a small place of respite while travelling (especially welcome in hostile weather) as well as an opportunity to seek out the knowledge and magics of the resident clerics and monks. Blessings of the moon twins are especially sought out by those afflicted with lycanthropy as well as those who expect to encounter said creatures.

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 9,600 x 9,600 pixels (32 x 32 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for the recommended 10′ squares) – so resizing it to either 2,240 x 2,240 or 4,480 x 4,480, respectively.

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